If anyone wants to come over and play some pinball, come on over! The only thing is you have to get through this to get into my house. The snow started last night at 10 pm or so, 36 inches later, here's what we got when opening the garage door this morning. The lake effect snow band is still dumping about 3 inches an hour with some winds in the south towns of Buffalo where I live.
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Crap, I don't know how you guys manage with that lake effects snow every year. Is it the wet heavy crap?
Yep, about 3 inches of slushy snow on the bottom followed by thick lake effect of 30 + inches overnight. Nearly impossible to snow blow, but I got it done. Then did my wife's driveway at work so she could get home from her overnight shift. Snow day for about 30 school districts and driving bans in about twenty towns, it's currently illegal to drive in the southern half of western New York! We are used to this but man, it's bad.
Checking in from the South in Fredonia.
We've been getting hit now for about 3 hours. Getting what you guys got overnight.
Fun stuff. Good luck with the tourney Neil! 
I grew up in Williamsville so I know firsthand how out of control the snow can be. It's part of the charm of the area and I miss it. Looking forward to coming home for Thanksgiving, catching a Sabres game and trying to get my Dad's Bobby Orr up and running.
Quoted from S37VEN:I grew up in Williamsville...
Is that like Bally-Williamsville? 
Our corporate HQ is in Buffalo. The first time I had to fly in they got 6 feet of snow the day before. I'm from cold country (Wisconsin). I'd never consider moving to Buffalo. You seem, to get hit once or twice a winter every year.
Quoted from Gnatty:S37VEN, if you need any Bally boards to get it up and running, I have a few to see if you can get it going
I may take you up on that! Last I checked a few years ago, there was some corrosion on the boards. I got the machine to power up and kick out a ball. Flippers were weak and then it died. The machine hasn't been played in well over a decade. Though I've gotten a bit better in the last couple years on pin repair I fear this still may be over my head. I'll probably post some pics on Pinside and I'll be sure to look you up Gnatty!
Good luck to all in Buffalo enduring an early season storm!
Quoted from Mank:So this is my view out the front door. I live about the same distance North of Buffalo that the OP lives South of Buffalo. The sad part is I couldn't even get to his house if I wanted to as all the major routes are closed.
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Same view at my house, but what do you expect, we're practically neighbors, lol
I am very jealous. I am ready for a huge dumping of snow and my wife is also pumped for the first big snow in of the year. It will make me happy to see her happy.
Looking forward to a day where we are both hopefully snowed in and have no options but to stay home, get buzzed, hump, and play pinball all day.
Yeah, I'm not going anywhere today, lol. It's pretty bad around Clinton St, from what I'm hearing. I like it just fine where I'm at with so little snow the grass is poking through, but the threat alone was enough for them to send us home from work. One little wind shift can change everything in a hurry.
Born & raised but left town a while ago. Great food, heartbreaking sports teams & lake effect snow is what gives us our character 
I 'll always miss the first two but not the latter! Good luck digging out
Quoted from Breaking_Dad:I'll be at your house shortly....and me and my son are in for pocketeer..... .....just another day in Buffalo
What the dog's thoughts on all the snow?
That 4th picture you posted looks like a Sasquatch.
Quoted from Gnatty:A quick update on the tournament today here at my house, I won the first one! I registered a 76,000,000 on Metallica, no one else showed up so I'll start another one at noon.
You should have gone 4 player.....then you would have had competition.. 
The winds really worked out for us today. I am between Syracuse and Rochester and we haven't seen a single flurry today. Sun was shining bright earlier. Usually the winds will bring it down off Lake Ontario and hit us with the lake effect but today its blowing it NE off the lake into the Watertown area.
I just snowblowed for the fifth time today, every time the plows go by, 12 inches of compact snow at the end of driveway and 5 inches in the driveway. Every hour or so, I'm exhausted! Down to the game room for a game or 15, of EBD! The National Guard has been dispatched to southern erie county to help out in this state of emergency. 30 mile an hour winds don't help either!
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What the heck's under that snow? Your restored Sherman tank?
BTW I guess we could have an on-line Pinside tournament. Heading to the basement to beat you on ST..........
Hearing Lancaster clocked in at 70"...and still has a day or so left of this. Kinda glad I move North a year ago.
Picked a good week to be in Boston...providing I can eventually get home
Got about a foot at my place so far, nothing too bad. Just a few miles south in the village they've got something like 40" though. Just another winter in WNY!
Not my house, thankfully.
http://www.wkbw.com/news/snow-breaks-down-door-to-familys-home-2
Gnatty ,be careful .A lot of structural weight to worry about as I'm sure you know. Good luck on the dig out.
Quoted from Gnatty:This says it all.....
So what do you do when you get 70 inches of snow? Is it possible for plows to plow the streets? How do you dig out of that much snow? What it gets warm next week will all of it melt?
I used to live in Cleveland, which is right on the edge of the snow belt and it sucked. I then moved a few miles south to Akron and they got a fraction of the snow. It was worth the increased risk of getting robbed to decrease the amount of snow.
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.....just another day in Buffalo.........Joey
